A WWI hero, Adm. Wilhelm Canaris specialized in intelligence, remained in the tiny, postwar German navy, and became Hitler’s director of military intelligence in 1935. Unlike the typical thuggish Nazi ...

A biography of the chief intelligence officer of the Third Reich, Wilhelm Canaris (1887-1945), who would end his life executed Hitler for his role in the “July Plot” against Hitler. Unlike most ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. HITLER’S SPY CHIEF: The Wilhelm Canaris Mystery by Richard Bassett Weidenfeld Nicolson £20, 319 pages Why was ...

ADMIRAL Wilhelm Canaris, who remains a shadowy and mysterious figure, was head of the Abwehr, one of several Nazi intelligence services. ADMIRAL Wilhelm Canaris, who remains a shadowy and mysterious ...

It was the night of August 25, 1939, when a German Opel staff car screeched into the courtyard of the Abwehr headquarters. Heinrich Gaedcke, a harried staff officer, flung the door open and sprinted ...

A British-made acid bomb hidden in a briefcase exploded on July 20, 1944 in Adolf Hitler’s headquarters, “Wolfschanze,” deep in an East Prussian pine forest. Four men were killed, but Hitler staggered ...

Who would send ill-prepared spies on a vital mission knowing they were bound to screw up? Nazi intelligence official Herbert Wichmann, that's who—at least according to one historian who argues that ...

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'One great advantage of generally accepted truth is that it is generally accepted,' writes Richard Bassett in the preface to the paperback edition of Hitler's Spy Chief, which caused some controversy ...